A Sensory Deprivation Float Tank Is the Most Extravagant Way to Isolate
Superior Float Tanks’ Evolution Float Pod.
Photographer: Janelle Jones for Bloomberg Businessweek. Illustration: Ben Lewis Giles
Prioritizing recovery after workouts has become integral to wellness. And as the benefits of proper recuperation become better appreciated—less soreness, improved circulation, shorter rest between workouts—at-home treatments are more popular. Among them, sensory deprivation flotation tanks are some of the most extravagant. Doctors have recommended immersion in a concentrated solution of body temperature- saline water since the 1950s. LeBron James and Stephen Curry now embrace the experience of weightlessness to calm the nervous system and enhance the body’s ability to mend by providing magnesium and other essential minerals. Superior Float Tanks’ Evolution Float Pod ($28,900) holds a half-ton of Epsom salts and is the choice for Notre Dame’s football team as well as Naomi Campbell, who uses one at the S10 Recovery spa in New York.
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